My Love for Jane Austen

Thank you for stopping by on J. Marie Croft's two-week blog tour for her recently published Pride and Prejudice novella titled A Little Whimsical in His Civilities . Today, you'll be reading an excerpt in which we are made privy to Mr. Darcy's thoughts, as he converses with Elizabeth for the first time since parting from her in Lambton. Enjoy the snippet. Excerpt "You must allow me to tell you how nice you look this evening." Those magnificent, warm, brown eyes finally look into mine, and I stifle a gasp. There it is — that devilish, bewitching twinkle I so adore. A frisson of excitement tingles my spine and other regions of my body. Beware, Darcy. Here, there be mischief. "Very well, Mr. Darcy, you have my permission and may proceed." What? Proceed? "I beg your pardon?" "I give you permission to remark on how nice I look this evening. You may do so at any time now." Nice? Did I truly just say she looks nice ? By God, ...

Welcome to the sixth stop on Karen M. Cox's blog tour for her newly published Pride and Prejudice story titled Undeceived . Austenesque readers may be familiar with her novels which are all published by Meryton Press such as 1932 , Find Wonder in All Things and At the Edge of the Sea . Today she will share her thoughts on book entourage. If you don't know what it means, let's find out together. Thank you so much for the invitation to guest post at My Love for Jane Austen ! I always have a hard time coming up with guest posts topics, but after pondering it a while, I thought I'd address a concept I believe might be a creation of the 21st Century. These days, we're living in the era of the... Book Entourage In recent years, it seems books are no longer presented to the world, naked, with only a cover to well...um...cover them. Books are accompanied by blog tours (like the one I'm on now), author interviews, character interviews, swag, street teams, c...